On May 16, 1770, Marie Antoinette was married to France's...

May 16, 1985

On May 16, 1770, Marie Antoinette was married to France`s King Louis XVI. In 1866, the Treasury Department was authorized to manufacture and place into circulation a 5-cent piece, referred to as the ``nickel.`` It contained 25 percent nickel and 75 percent copper.

In 1868, the Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on 1 of 11 articles of impeachment against him.

In 1905, actor Henry Fonda was born in Grand Island, Neb.

In 1914, the Grand League of American Horseshoe Pitchers Association was organized in Kansas City, Kan.

In 1927, the Supreme Court ruled that bootleggers must file income tax returns.

In 1960, a Big Four summit conference in Paris collapsed on its opening day as the Soviets leveled spy charges against the U.S. in the wake of the U-2 incident.

In 1969, a Soviet spacecraft reached the vicinity of the planet Venus and dropped a capsule that sent back information on that planet`s atmosphere.

In 1974, Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian positions in Lebanon in reprisal for a guerrilla raid on a school in Maalot.

In 1975, Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

In 1982, Yugoslavia`s parliament elected the country`s first female prime minister, Milka Planinc.

In 1983, President Reagan called deficit spending ``one of the most alarming dangers to our republic`` and accused members of Congress of not keeping their pledge to cut spending.

In 1984, Philippine authorities reported that 91 people died two days earlier in election-day violence.